Petro Kuqo, 87, who is missing, moved to Largo with his wife, daughter, and nephew almost two months ago from Greece to join other immediate family.<\/p>\n
LARGO, Fla. \u2014 We have new photos that may help in the search for an 87-year-old man with dementia who’s been missing for more than a week. Police and his family have not given up hope that Petro Kuqo could still be alive somewhere.<\/p>\n
He recently moved to Largo from Greece. On the morning of Dec. 12, he wandered away from his apartment at The Pointe at Clearwater just off U.S. 19, south of Belleair Road.<\/p>\n
Police said Friday afternoon they aren’t on scene searching anymore, but are still working the case they said is still active.<\/p>\n
Kuqo’s family tells us they believe Largo Police have done everything possible to find their father and grandfather, and that if he were in the immediate area, they would’ve found him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have hope that we’re going to find him, and we’re not going to stop looking until we find him,\u201d said his daughter, Linda Mita.<\/p>\n
For years, Mita says her father would travel back and forth from the U.S. to Greece, but now with dementia, he, his wife, and two more family members moved here for good about seven weeks ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had his birthday on November 7th,\u201d Mita said. \u201cHe was very happy; we were singing and doing our dancing and he was just sitting and having a good time with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
She says while family was sleeping last Friday, he left his new apartment wearing a grey pajama top, dark sweatpants and Skechers slides. They kept an Air Tag for finding him in case he wandered off in his wallet because previously he never left home without dressing and taking it with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost everybody has a [surveillance] camera,\u201d said Linda\u2019s husband, Kosta, addressing the public. \u201cPlease spend five, 10 minutes, go through that Friday and see if anything you can see is going to be really, really helpful for the police and for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re continuing to post flyers and spreading out our search,\u201d said their daughter, Elena, in a Facebook video posted by private search team We Are The Essentials. \u201cPolice are spreading out their search a little bit further in case someone gave him a ride to help him and left him somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friends continue to volunteer in helping search, but also strangers who’ve helped them not feel alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne lady said, \u2018My husband left and we found him,\u2019\u201d said Linda. \u201cOne other lady said, \u2018I came here because I went through the same thing.\u2019 She had her mother leave the house and they found her after 90 days.\u201d<\/p>\n
The search has now expanded throughout Pinellas County, as more people continue to contact the family offering to help. They plan to search more places this weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore people knowing is better,\u201d she adds. \u201cWe have more chances to find him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Petro Kuqo, 87, who is missing, moved to Largo with his wife, daughter, and nephew almost two months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-90841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}